Multiple choice

The sentence 'Madam drives a bicycle' is

  1. correct syntactically but semantically incorrect

  2. correct semantically but syntactically incorrect

  3. correct semantically as well as syntactically

  4. incorrect semantically as well as syntactically
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence is syntactically correct because it follows proper grammatical structure: subject (Madam) + verb (drives) + object (a bicycle). However, it's semantically incorrect because the word 'Madam' typically refers to an adult woman, and the mental image of an adult woman driving a bicycle violates our semantic expectations about who typically rides bicycles. This creates semantic implausibility despite grammatical correctness.

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